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NEWS > 2010
In addition to providing information pertaining to our organization, KID
provides brief updates on current children's product safety information and
events. For more frequent news postings, visit KID's blog.
Contents of this Issue:
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July 2010
(CHICAGO) Today, in Chicago where much of the furor over children's
product safety started; consumer advocates, parents, federal and state officials gathered to express their commitment to children's
product safety and reveal new tools in the arsenal against recalled and defective products. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman
Inez Tenenbaum, in her first official visit to Chicago, joined Kids In Danger, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Consumer Federation
of America Director of Product Safety and Senior Counsel Rachel Weintraub to discuss new product registration requirements and other measure to keep
children safe from dangerous children's products. KID Founders Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar spoke of the new requirements for product registration
as well as pre-market testing as the legacy of their son Danny. Danny died in 1998 in a recalled defective portable crib.
Read more.
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June 2010
Todays marks the day that manufacturers of most durable infant and toddler products have to include a postage paid card
with each product, allowing consumers to register their information in the event of a recall. Consumers can also register the
products online. KID, along with Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, U.S. PIRG and the National Research Center
for Women && Families
released a statement applauding the action. "This new measure will allow consumers who purchased or own the product to get
accurate news of a recall quickly, along with the information they need to comply with the
recall," said Nancy Cowles, Executive Director of Kids In Danger. Read more.
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April 2010
With yet another drop-side crib recall and efforts underway to ban cribs with drop-side designs, KID put
information
on our blog that will answer questions about the dangers of drop-side cribs as well as what to do if you have one. In addition,
the Illinois Attorney General's office has published flyers in
English and
Spanish on the dangers of drop-side cribs..
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March 2010
Today, along with US Representative Jan Schakowsky and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, KID released a new study,
The Year of the Nursery Product Recall.
The report looks at children's product recalls in 2009, as well as the changes in our children's product safety system over the year.
It found that recalls remained high in 2008, including a record number of nursery product recalls. The hazards identified in the recalls
points to the need for the mandatory safety standards and public database required by the CPSIA. Read
more.
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January 2010
Kids In Danger spent the third week of January 2010
in Washington DC, first participating in landmark meetings to revamp the voluntary crib standard that will soon become mandatory and then
testifying Thursday
at the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on crib safety.
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